They were picking up pieces of their teenage memories at an event the Beaumont school district held to distribute keepsakes from the 87-year-old school building that construction crews recently started tearing down.

Mint green wall lockers, old teacher and student desks, brown auditorium seats, doorknobs and building bricks were among the items available for alumni outside of South Park stadium.

The school's seven-foot green and white mascot sat in the parking lot overlooking the items, watching former South Park students pile their cars with memories.

"Look, Greenie locks!" one woman shouted as she emerged from inside the stadium with a bag full of old padlocks used to keep lockers closed.

The event started at 8 a.m., and by 8:30 only a small pile of bricks remained.